Watch Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues Online The script, co-written by Ferrell and his frequent collaborator Adam McKay, has some issues with the dumbing down of media. The new station is run by a swashbuckling Australian media baron (Josh Lawson) who manipulates his news staff. Ron becomes the first anchor to boost ratings by covering high-speed car chases. In order to beat his primetime rival Jack Lime (James Marsden), Ron goes after the patriotic American viewer. His new sign-off becomes ''Don't just have a great night, have an American night …'' His ratings soar, which tells you something about what Ferrell and McKay think of the average viewer.

It's been nearly 10 years since we first met Ron Burgundy, and this sequel is just as random and silly as expected. It's also more like a series of referential gags than an actual movie comedy, and as with the original film the best bits are knowing jabs at absurdities of the news media. This time we're in the 1980s, so there's plenty to make fun of here.

Over the past decade, Ron (Ferrell) has married Veronica (Applegate), and they've taken a joint anchor job in New York, where they live with their son (Nelson). But when Veronica lands a coveted network news job, Ron has a meltdown. Drunk and unemployed, he's approached to work on a new station: a 24-hour cable news channel. Even though he's sure this crazy idea will never catch on, Ron re-assembles his old team (swaggering reporter Rudd, dazed weatherman Carell and goofy sports guy Koechner) to beat handsome anchor Jack Lime (Marsden) in the ratings. And Ron's offbeat, populist approach changes the news forever.

You can imagine what follows. Ron and his oddly articulate Border Terrier, Baxter, have to reassemble the Channel 4 News Team from the four corners of the country so they can play an integral part in broadcast-news history. Most of this is just a pretext for hilariously preposterous situations and dada-esque improvised dialogue, which is precisely what makes the film such a perfectly pitched continuation of the first movie. But in Anchorman 2, behind the absurdist comedy bits that we hold so dear is a modest, unexpectedly smart layer of satire about the idiocy of the 24-hour news cycle (absurdist in its own way).

And amid all the bizarre ridiculousness that serves as Anchorman 2’s comedic bread-and-butter, McKay also knows exactly when to add a callback to the first movie, picking his moments carefully so they offer maximum bombastic satisfaction and never seem cheap. And that’s kind of amazing for a comedy that specifically strives to feel chaotic, off-the-cuff, and insane. Maybe McKay and his cast simply captured another bolt of lightning in Ron’s empty scotch bottle; more likely, they were just as inspired this time around as they were during the first film. Regardless, they’ve definitely kept it classy.

As a result, with the exception of a rousing, cameo-crammed news team melee toward the end and a hint of jazz flute, Anchorman 2 is refreshingly light on winks, nudges and other forms of gratuitous fan service to the first film. McKay and co-writer Will Ferrell avoided erring to the other extreme, as well. To their credit, the duo seems to have realized you don’t have to reinvent the wheel—you just need to keep it rolling.

It’s weird that Anchorman 2 is so solidly awesome; it goes against everything we know about Hollywood. When you hear that a studio has green-lit a second installment to a movie you love, part of you feels excited, but part of you feels nauseous. You want to yell, “You’re going to ruin the legacy! Sequels are uninspired! You can’t recapture lightning in a bottle!” And yet Adam McKay and Will Ferrell have done it -- the thunder keeps rolling from Anchorman through Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues as if the nine years between them had never happened. Indeed, the reputation of everyone’s favorite sophisticated/belligerent newscaster Ron Burgundy remains as lustrous and perfect as his virile, auburn mustache.

The story picks up around 1980, a handful of years after the events of the first movie, as Ron, now married to his partner at home and at the news desk, Veronica Corningstone, loses a shot at the nationally broadcasted nightly news -- getting passed over, of course, for his über-professional, badass wife. After a despondent, irate, slightly racist temper tantrum, as well as a drunken turn as an announcer at SeaWorld, Ron gets a crazy-sounding offer to read the news again, this time for a start-up 24-hour news channel run by a fast-talking Australian zillionaire.

Back in 2004 Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) hit the scene as one of television’s most loved news anchors. Fast forward nine year and he is still having success or so he thinks he is. When his wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) is offered a promotion, Ron finds himself jealous once again which costs him his relationship and his career. He takes a hiatus until he is approached by GNN, a news station looking to offer news to audiences 24 hours a day. The idea sounds outrageous to Ron, but when he sees the compensation he is quickly on board and looking to get his team together.

He locates his friends one by one. Champ Kind (David Koechner), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), and Brick Tamland (Steve Carrell) are more then eager to return to work and get the news team back together. They arrive at GNN only to find that they are slated for the graveyard shift. Their main competition being Jack Lime (James Marsden) who is the eye of perfection for Burgundy. The news team will take a different angle on the news reporting in the hopes of standing out and getting more viewers. The unorthodox method seems to work and Burgrundy and his team find success once again.

Burgundy will allow his ego to take over and find himself alienating his friends. Much like the original their is another news anchor fight sequence that will feature MANY cameo appearances. “Anchorman 2? is well worth the wait. It’s Ferrell at his best and the chemistry between the team is undeniable. The interracial relationship between Burgundy and Linda Jackson (Meagan Good) was the standout moment. When Linda takes Ron home to meet her family the laughter could not stop. They took the news to a whole new level and paralleled the reality CNN and Fox News report on a daily basis. “Anchorman 2? is outrageously funny…so glad this legend continued!